Licensure, Certificates & Honors
Certificates
FHWA Balanced Mix Design (BMD) Case Studies Virtual Workshop: Moving Forward with Implementation, Virtual Webinar, 2022.
ITD Application and use of AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design Software, Boise, ID, 2021.
Machine Learning and Molecular Dynamics Webinar, Virtual event, 2021
CAES Data Science Boot Camp, Virtual event, 2021
NIST 2020 Atomistic Simulations for Industrial Needs Workshop, Virtual event, 2020
CAES-INL C3 Summer Boot Camp, Virtual event, 2020
Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES) Affiliate – Idaho National Lab (INL), ID, 2017
NCAT Professor Training in Asphalt Technology for professional development, Auburn, AL, June 2015.
PCA Professor Workshop in Portland Cement Association for professional development, Skokie, IL, July 2014.
Center for Advanced Energy Studies Affiliate Status for Academic Year 2015-2016
Professional Engineer (PE), certified by the Idaho Board of Professional Engineers, Registration Number: 15792, Oct. 2013
Cyberinfrastructure for Atomistic Materials Science (CAMS) Summer School on Simulation of Complex Microstructure in Materials, FL, May 2013
Center for By-products Utilization (CBU) and National Center for Freight and Infrastructure Research and Education (CFIRE) Workshop on Smart Materials for Sustainable Infrastructure, Milwaukee, WI, Nov. 2012
Certificate of Appreciation as a Moderator for Proceedings of the COMSOL Conference 2012 Boston, MA, Oct. 2012
Green Concrete Performance Workshop, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, July, 2012
Engineer-In-Training (FE): EIT Certification (EIT/FE certified by the Maryland Board of Professional Engineers), Registration Number: 41440, Oct. 2011
Atlas/NIST Workshop on Photovoltaic Materials Durability, Gaithersburg, MD, 2011
22rd NIST Computer Modeling Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, July, 2011
National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) Guest Researcher, Gaithersburg, MD 2008
High Performance Parallel Computing Boot Camp at University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 2007
Honors and Awards
NIST Distinguished Associate Award for FY2013, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, 04/2014
Travel Fund Program Award, Cyberinfrastructure for Atomistic Materials Science (CAMS) Summer School on Simulation of Complex Microstructure in Materials, FL, 03/2013
Best Paper Award (top one over 260+ papers), Proceedings of the COMSOL Conference 2012 Boston, MA, 10/2012
NIST-ARRA Fellowship (Federal Level), ARRA Travel Fund Program Award, 07/2012
NIST-ARRA Fellowship (Federal Level), Awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Measurement Science and Engineering Fellowship Program (NIST-ARRA), 11/2010
Dean’s Pratt Fellowship from Virginia Tech for research and academic accomplishments, 08/2006
Excellent Student Scholarship, 1st Prize, Tsinghua University Guanghua Scholarship, 11/2004
Excellent Student Scholarship, 3rd Prize, Tsinghua University, 11/2003
2rd Prize Award, the National ‘Challenge Cup’ Science & Technology Competition, P. R. China, 05/2001